Ed Freyfogle was at the Denver Art Museum and spotted this pair of lion maps
Some Maps in the Wild at the Denver Art Museum: Holland and Belgium as lions, part of the amazing exhibit on Flemish masters.
This reminds me of those maps of Britain as a bulldog or Fred Rose’s octopus images used to indicate Russia’s imperial connections in the build up to the first war.
Another one from Ken, he called this a forearm smash (?). I don’t understand why people want to have tattoos, they don’t […]
Second post from Reinder Storm‘s Parisian trip
Raf shared this “Tasty cupcakes from Forn de Mont-ral, Prades, Catalunya”
Raf sent us this wine bottle with contour lines from the Montsant region of Spain. Apparently it is “A blend of Grenache […]
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Tony R sent me this fascinating article about Leo Belgicus https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/netherlands-leo-belgicus-lion-map